>RHS athletics: Money and Sports
I have asked about this before, but it would be great to see the budget for extracurricular activities. How much is spent on football and the DECA club? What do the various programs cost? Do sports cost more than academic, arts and leadership clubs?
Football has the biggest roster that I have ever seen. Everyone gets to suit up and stand on the sidelines. It is not a matter of how many scholarships students receive or even how well the teams do. Why does our BOE (and most schools) value sports over other achievements? This culture of sports gets us nowhere. We need to focus on programs that are open to all students; taxes are paid by all residents. A lot of money was spent creating a stadium – and repairing it – for whose benefit? The PE classes did just fine with the old field. Let’s not pretend that we have created some award-winning PE program. The money was spent for sports. RHS is a college prep high school and some residents and BOE members seem to have lost sight of that. We have limited funds and we need to remember that it is Ridgewood High School, not the Ridgewood Sports Bubble.
